March 24, 2009

At
a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing,
President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail
above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to
liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.

The
highest-profile moments in the new approach have been well-noted, such
as the president giving an interview to progressive radio host Ed
Schultz and Obama calling on a reporter from the liberal-leaning
Huffington Post at his first news conference.

This is doubly lame because President Thin-Skin is apparently afraid
that the notoriously conservative [yeah, right] Washington press corps are going to
be mean and maybe ask a question a little harder than, say, "Is it
difficult being the Smartest Man in the World?" Uh-huh.